DC Court Applies Common-Sense Limits To Davis-Bacon Act

Law360, New York (April 14, 2014, 11:52 AM EDT) -- On March 31, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a determination by the U.S. Department of Labor applying the Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) to a privately funded construction project. In District of Columbia v. Department of Labor et al., 1:13-cv-00730, the court held that development of CityCenterDC, a large-scale urban redevelopment project in downtown Washington, D.C., did not involve construction of a "public building or public work" and therefore was not subject to DBA coverage. This decision is important because, as the court explained, "the DBA has never before been applied to a project that, like CityCenterDC, is privately financed, privately owned, and privately maintained." Slip op. at 16....

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